852.48/122a: Telegram
The Secretary of State to the Ambassador in Spain (Bowers), Then in France
B–203. For Chapman.73 Department has advised interested persons that passport visa applications of Basque children may be accepted by you for consideration and appropriate action.74
You should determine in each case whether the child may be properly classified as a temporary visitor as defined in consular regulations. Any reasonable assurances of their subsequent return abroad should be given due weight. If the applicant may be so classified and is eligible for passport visa it should be pointed out that his legal admission into the United States could in any case not be effected if he falls within clauses of 1917 Immigration Act75 defining (a) aliens with passages paid for by certain organizations or (b) unaccompanied children unless admission of latter authorized by Secretary of Labor. Two clauses mentioned, if applicable, are nevertheless not grounds for refusal passport visas if children otherwise eligible and are classifiable [Page 514] as bona fide temporary visitors. Department of Labor has taken no action as yet.
Report by telegram action taken.